Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 414
and touch our hearts. And yet in some parts this modelling makes us feel thatthe individual is apart from prose history, and remainsintangible in regions to which we are forbidden to attainotherwise than by the gaze. This unforeseen mingling of life and immortality, thishappy fusion of the mythical… … CEDIPUS 321 expresses the genius of evil governed by the intelligence,beauty conquered by the mind. At the back of the caverninto vi^hich CEdipus has ventured, the painter has not hesi-tated to let us see the feet of a corpse and the skeletons ofthose who have been devoured by the Sphynx : another…
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